By DAVE EISENSTADTER
Last modified: Monday, September 07, 2015
AMHERST Britainy “Story” Young had to drop out of college at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2010 because she could not afford it. Now enrolled again, she expects to owe $86,000 when she graduates next May and she has little hope of paying it off in full.
Jennifer DeCarolis of Florence graduated from Keene State College in New Hampshire in 2005 with $40,000 in debt. To make ends meet, she moved in with her grandparents and never moved out. She still lives in their home, even now that they have passed away, and continues to pay off her debt 10 years after graduating.
Ed Brennen As the Biden Administration continues to push the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations â with a new goal of having 200 million doses administered by the end of April â pharmaceutical companies Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson are working around the clock to meet demand.
For those working on the vaccine production lines â like UMass Lowell alumni Christina Michel â17 and Brian Madigan â19 at Moderna â it is both exhausting and exhilarating.
âItâs very fast paced and the hours are long. But then I turn on the TV and see all the vaccines being distributed and families being reunited, and it really brings so much joy to my day,â says Michel, who earned a bachelorâs degree in biology from the Kennedy College of Sciences and is now a manufacturing associate at Modernaâs production facility in Norwood, Massachusetts.
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Meehan urges second straight UMass tuition freeze
Colin A. Young
State House News Service
BOSTON For the second year in a row, University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan plans to recommend a tuition freeze for the roughly 50,000 in-state undergraduate students in the system next academic year in recognition of the financial impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
In a video released as part of his State of the University address, Meehan also said UMass is striving toward having near normal operations in the fall with virtually all students attending in-person classes and employees returning to campuses.
The freeze means UMass would forego $14.3 million in revenue that it could have generated with a tuition hike to match inflation, officials said. Meehan said the tuition freeze is made possible by the support of our federal legislative delegation, who recently passed the American Rescue Plan Act and our partners in both the state legislature and Gov. Baker s adminis
In recognition of the impacts the pandemic continues to have on people’s pocketbooks, University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan will recommend a.